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Astronomers are now certain that the mysterious object detected hurtling past our sun last month is indeed from another solar system. They have named it 1I/2017 U1(’Oumuamua) and believe it could be one of 10,000 others lurking undetected in our cosmic neighbourhood.

I see this is picking up a trend in the news. We've had some wild theories including the possibility of an unmanned probe designed to slingshot around a target as part of a reconnaissance for a a larger craft, or an ancient alien ship that has lost all power drifting through the universe.

But it's probably still a rock. Not a natural shape, mind you...

Edit: Look at the trajectory of this thing:

The odds of a rock having that shape occur naturally, AND for it to make such a close pass to SOL's goldilocks zone and then to slingshot out?

Another great theory I've spotted is that it could be a rock that has been specifically carved with a series of messages actually physically written on the surface (kind of like a giant stone tablet with some equations maybe) - so only a sufficiently advanced civilization could detect them.

And now that I think of it, 'Racing the Night' was more alien writing and so I've dug up episodes from several sci-fi shows that add to this; 'A Day in the Strife' from Babylon 5 and Star Trek TNG 'Masks' - for all we know the dimensions within the comet could be greater than 3.